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Sevilla FC presents Scout Advisor, a state-of-the-art tool built on IBM’s Watsonx platform, for the player recruitment process.
“Scout Advisor” is designed to harness the full potential of Sevilla FC’s extensive player database to create new competitive advantages.
Watsonx enables Sevilla FC to bridge the gap between classic human-centric and data-driven analysis of recruit identity and characterisation.
MADRID, Jan. 23, 2024 /CNW/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Sevilla FC today introduced Scout Advisor, an innovative generative AI tool that Sevilla FC will use to provide their scouting team with a comprehensive, data-driven identification and evaluation of potential recruits. Built on watsonx, IBM’s AI and data platform designed for enterprises, Sevilla FC’s Scout Advisor will integrate with their existing suite of self-developed data-intensive applications.
Sevilla FC’s knowledge arm worked with IBM’s visitors engineering team to create Scout Advisor, leveraging Watsonx’s herbal language processing and core models to search and analyse massive amounts of data from the club’s existing knowledge bases to evaluate potential signings. This includes quantitative knowledge such as height and weight, speed, number of goals or minutes played, and unstructured qualitative knowledge, such as textual research, contained in more than 200,000 detection reports.
The solution’s natural language processing capabilities have enabled Sevilla FC to use multiple large language models (LLMs) to help enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of their player identification. Using language prompts from Sevilla FC scouters that describe the key characteristics of the players searched, Scout Advisor generates curated lists of candidates based on stated requirements and summarizes the full set of scouting reports for each individual player. Additionally, Scout Advisor links every player to the Sevilla FC’s own data-applications to obtain deep insights about their quantitative performance figures.
Player scouting and recruiting decisions at elite sports teams, especially in football industry, involve multi-million-dollar investments, long term contracts and high levels of uncertainty on performance and ROI. Traditionally, player recruitment has relied on a combination of subjective human observation and manual data analysis. However, this approach has several limitations, as it is both time consuming and considers only a limited number of factors.
Already widely recognized for its large database of quantitative player ratings, Sevilla FC’s recruitment team has attracted international attention for its good fortune in identifying football’s rising stars. In addition, Sevilla FC is a pioneer in the progression of its own data-intensive applications, aimed at characterising players based on a wide variety of quantitative numbers. Now, Scout Advisor offers Sevilla FC additional competitive merit by combining its existing features with the use of generative AI to bridge the gap between metrics-based detection and human-centric observations. That can’t be measured so easily in the field. This automated technique is designed to improve their player identity process, to help them make more effective and informed recruitment decisions.
IBM Watsonx features enable Scout Advisor to harness the full potential of Sevilla FC’s extensive player reporting database, allowing players to be searched in natural language and retrieved potential signings based on their key quantitative metrics and the detailed opinion that recruitment experts have on them. Potential competitive advantages of FC, in terms of the ability to make more informed hiring decisions through technology-based insights.
“We are very pleased to be working with IBM, as this task has the potential to be a game-changer for Sevilla FC and the entire sports industry,” José María del Nido Carrasco, president of Sevilla FC. “Our team of scouts and analysts are committed to locating the most productive players to help our team’s good fortune and have worked tirelessly to create an impressive database of player reports. Now, with IBM’s help, we can use this asset to its full potential. “This gives us significant credit in the player recruitment process and allows us to locate the most productive players for our team and continue to improve our functionality on the field. We believe that this collaboration will have a positive effect not only for Sevilla FC but also for “
“We are proud to partner with Sevilla FC to use the power of IBM Watsonx’s generative AI to contribute to the accuracy and power of their player recruitment process,” said Ana Paula Assis, president and general manager, IBM EMEA. “With the right barriers in place and governance in place, AI continues to be a game-changer for corporations across many industries looking to modernize their operations. In this case, through the generation of reliable and explainable data that promotes the goals of a competitive football club and at the same time transforms the task of a football team. explore.
The collaboration between IBM and Sevilla FC is part of the club’s broader generation and business strategy, which aims to harness the power of knowledge and AI for its football operations. By integrating the Watsonx-based solution into its existing knowledge architecture, Sevilla FC aims to increase the return on investment of existing resources through faster, more effective and better-informed recruitment decisions.
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About Sevilla FC
Sevilla FC is one of the most important clubs in Spain and Europe. Celebrating its 134th anniversary in January, the club has brilliantly combined history and modernity. The 21st century has seen a sporting explosion for the club. After a few first years full of regional and national history. Glory, over the last 18 years, Sevilla FC has achieved significant success abroad, winning a total of 8 European titles, adding seven UEFA European Leagues and one UEFA Super Cup. In addition, the club has become a normal player in the UEFA Champions League. Beyond its sporting achievements, Sevilla FC is considered a pioneer in taking advantage of the generation to search for players and other organizational spaces.
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Sevilla FC: Álvaro Ramírez Pérez. (a. ramirezperez@sevillafc. com) IBM: Miguel Giménez de Castro (miguel. gimenezdc@IBM. com)
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